LEGACY

[noun] [C] - money, possessions etc. which you agree to give to another person when you die, or (figurative) something that is a part of your history or which stays from an earlier timeAn elderly cousin had left her a small legacy.(figurative) The Greeks have a rich legacy of literature.(figurative) The increase in consumer borrowing has created a legacy of instability and indebtedness.(figurative) New technology, the main legacy of the Eighties, has been a mixed blessing.(figurative) Oil slicks and black smoke were the environmental legacies of the war.